Sony To Challenge MacBook Air With A Couple Of Ultralight VAIOs?

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One existing as an ultralight laptop with the ability to dock to a larger station for desktop replacement peripherals and the other as an 11.6 inch netbook running Chrome—rumors are out that Sony is planning to unleash these two ultra-portable VAIOs on the market in the near future.

The former, known as the “Hybrid PC”, has specs like: a Core i7, an SSD, HDMI 1.4, WiDi and weighs less than 2.5 pounds. When docked, it has access to a Radeon HD 6700M (Whistler-XT), a Blu-ray burner, Ethernet, VGA, and a custom USB/AC connector. The system is also rumored to support Thunderbolt I/O in some way.

The latter would be an 11.6 inch, Chrome Netbook using an NVIDIA Tegra 2 and sporting 8 hours of battery life. 3G or 4G connectivity would be built into the netbook.

All of this points to Sony’s efforts to build a direct competitor to the Apple MacBook Air and revamp their approach to building ultraportable laptops, which have historically been more like regular laptops.

I have to say, as long as it’s built well, the docking concept is intriguing. We’ll see if these come to market this summer as rumored.